Listen it’s fine if you’re frustrated that cohost doesn’t have certain functions at this moment or you actually like the global feed or whatever. I do think it’s important to remember this site is being assembled by a small team of people doing their best.
I started a union drive at my service job right before COVID hit. It was/is a “small business” (which in LA means your boss could be a millionaire, and mine was) and one of the first bougie food places to spring up as the area was gentrified. We had pretty overwhelming support but there was a small contingent of people who thought the minimum wage service employees, most of whom were born and raised in LA, were gentrifiers because the boss was(???). Alternatively, they wanted us to immediately be a revolutionary vanguard fighting gentrification. Nevermind that it was an organizing committee of 6 people, total number of about 30 employees, and we were constantly contending with our boss’s union busting & lax COVID approach, plus talking through it with people too scared to even sign a union petition, AND I had to single-handedly re-organize a new committee after the first iteration was laid off.
I think people tend to have exceedingly high standards for community-based projects and basically no standards at all for people in power, and this has a lot to do with who you feel like you can directly access. Cohost is going to have ups and downs, there are going to be problems, you might not love everything about the site and that’s ok. I just ask that you cut the team some slack. They’re not tech gazillionaires, they’re working people trying to make a website that isn’t hellish, let’s afford them (and each other, while we’re at it) some grace.
Anyway sorry to do a discourse post I’m trying to keep these at a minimum